As those inside the Beltway debate how best to fund their responsibility for the nation's transportation infrastructure, a AAA study finds most Americans would pay more taxes for better roads.
Autoblog reports 67 percent of the 2,013 surveyed by AAA want the federal government to get it together and put more money into maintenance, with 52 percent in support of an increase in fuel taxes. Further, 51 percent surveyed would go as far as supporting a candidate who would support increases in funding for road maintenance and construction.
AAA CEO and president Bob Darbelnet added that many Americans were "willing to pay a little more" in taxes if the result led to "better roads, bridges and transit systems," having become "fed up with record-long commutes, unsafe highways and never-ending potholes caused by political inaction." In turn, the organization claims drivers would save $324 annually on road-related repairs for their vehicles.
AAA's call to action comes under the potential threat of road work delays when the Highway Trust Fund — whose replenishment depends on the 18.3-cent/gallon gasoline and 22.4-cent/gallon diesel taxes that last saw an increase over 20 years ago — runs out of funds sometime this August. The Obama administration and a few members of Congress have offered solutions to the funding problem, but nothing more as come of them thus far.
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